We’re looking to buy our first proper family tent and I’d love to hear from people who camp regularly with children.
We’re a family of four with two young daughters and are hoping to use camping as our main UK holiday for years to come, rather than paying for cottages every summer. We’d like to buy something once and keep it for a long time.
We’ve spent today looking around tents and now feel more confused than when we started! We really liked one of the larger Vango air tents because it felt so spacious, but then started wondering whether it would be too big for some campsites and a pain to pack away if it was wet.
One thing that’s important to us is that we already have a king-size airbed and we’d like to keep using it, so we’re looking for something with a decent-sized bedroom rather than squeezing everything in. We’d also like enough living space that if the weather is awful for a day it still feels comfortable to spend time inside.
Has anyone bought a really big family air tent and either been pleased they did, or wished they’d gone a bit smaller? Also, if you’ve had both polyester and polycotton tents, was the extra cost and weight of polycotton worth it?
We’re not in a rush to buy and would much rather get it right than regret spending a lot of money, so I’d really appreciate hearing about real-life experiences rather than just reading manufacturers’ descriptions.